chlorophyll

See also: Chlorophyll

English

Alternative forms

• chlorophyl (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French chlorophylle, from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”) and φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈklɔː.ɹə.fɪl/, /ˈklɒɹ.ə.fɪl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈklɔɹ.ə.fɪl/

Noun

chlorophyll (usually uncountable, plural chlorophylls)

1. (biochemistry) Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.

Hypernyms

• chlorin
• pigment

Meronyms

• porphyrin ring
• phytol chain

Coordinate terms

• anthocyanin, carotenoid, xanthophyll

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bacteriochlorophyll
• chlorophyll a
• chlorophyll b
• chlorophyll c
• chlorophyll c1
• chlorophyll c2
• chlorophyll c3
• chlorophyll d
• chlorophyll f
• chlorophyllase
• chlorophyllic
• chlorophyllide
• chlorophyllin
• chlorophylloid
• chlorophyllose
• chlorophyllous

Translations

green pigment

• Afrikaans: chlorofil, bladgroen
• Arabic: يَخْضُور (yaḵḍūr), كْلُورُوفِيل (klūrūfīl)
• Armenian: քլորոֆիլ (hy) (kʻlorofil)
• Azerbaijani: xlorofil
• Bashkir: хлорофилл (xlorofill)
• Basque: klorofila
• Bulgarian: хлорофи́л m (hlorofíl)
• Catalan: clorofil·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葉綠素／叶绿素 (zh) (yèlǜsù)

• Czech: chlorofyl (cs) m
• Danish: klorofyl (da), bladgrønt n
• Dutch: bladgroen (nl) n, chlorofyl (nl) n
• Estonian: klorofüll
• Faroese: blaðgrøni m
• Finnish: lehtivihreä (fi), klorofylli (fi)
• French: chlorophylle (fr) f
• Galician: clorofila (gl) f
• German: Chlorophyll (de) n, Blattgrün (de)

  Alemannic German: Blattgrien

• Greek: χλωροφύλλη (el) f (chlorofýlli)
• Gujarati: હરિતદ્રવ્ય (haritadravya)
• Hindi: पर्णहरित (parṇahrit)
• Icelandic: blaðgræna, laufgræna, klórófýl
• Italian: clorofilla (it) f
• Japanese: クロロフィル (kurorofiru), 葉緑素 (ja) (yōryokuso)
• Kazakh: хлорофилл (xlorofill)
• Khmer: ហរិតបត្ត (hak rit bat)
• Korean: 엽록소(葉綠素) (ko) (yeomnokso), 클로로필 (keulloropil)
• Kyrgyz: хлорофилл (ky) (hlorofill)
• Latvian: hlorofils m
• Lithuanian: žãlymas
• Macedonian: хлорофил m (hlorofil)
• Malay: klorofil, zat hijau
• Malayalam: ഹരിതകം (ml) (haritakaṁ), ക്ലോറോഫിൽ (klōṟōphil)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хлорофилл (mn) (xlorofill), навчны ногоон эд (navčny nogoon ed) (China)

  Mongolian: ᡀᠣᠷᠣᠹᠢᠯᠯ (lhorofill), ᠨᠠᠪᠴᠢᠨ ᠦ
  ᠨᠣᠭᠣᠭᠠᠨ
  ᠡᠳ᠋ (nabčin-ü noɣoɣan ed)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bladgrønt, klorofyll n

  Nynorsk: bladgrønt, klorofyll n

• Persian: سبزینه (fa) (sebzine), کلروفیل (fa) (klorofil)
• Polish: chlorofil (pl) m
• Portuguese: clorofila (pt) f
• Quechua: raphi q'umir
• Romanian: clorofilă (ro) f
• Russian: хлорофи́лл (ru) m (xlorofíll)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хлорофил m, клорофил m (Croatia)

  Roman: hlorofil m, klorofil (sh) m (Croatia)

• Slovene: klorofil (sl) m
• Spanish: clorofila (es) f
• Swahili: umbijani
• Swedish: klorofyll (sv), bladgrönt
• Tagalog: kloropila
• Turkish: klorofil (tr)
• Vietnamese: chất diệp lục (質葉綠), diệp lục tố (vi) (葉綠素)